Some people I know, many of them intelligent, devout and kind, object to the measures that governments have taken to stop the spread of covid. What I have to ask them is whether they object to the measures because:
- such measures are intrinsically unjust, however bad the disease
- covid isn't a serious enough disease to warrant such measures?
If they hold the first position, they would presumably agree with the statement that deaths caused by a serious infection are acceptable because the right to go out and socialise is more important. If they hold the second position, they would presumably support measures such as those that have been taken with covid if they believed that a particular disease actually was dangerous.
I would want to ask those who supported unrestricted circulation in time of plague whether they really mean that! I'd want to ask those who say covid isn't dangerous to produce peer-reviewed scientific papers to prove it; theories about freemasons and reptiles just aren't enough.